From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-02-01T02:44:58+09:00
Subject: Re: TCP/UDP server weird lags on 1.8.4 linux

From: "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@aei-tech.com>
> 
>> Interesting, thanks.  I added that, but the strange delay still
>> occurs when doing UDP I/O.  (The strace output looks the same, it
>> gets stuck in poll().)
>>
>> I'll try to make a small program to reproduce the behavior...
> 
> The other thing I did was to add the host I was connecting to to
> /etc/hosts (on Linux anyway), so it had the namelookup information anyway.
> Can't remember if that helped or not, though.

Thanks Caleb!!!

That got me on the right track.  I was stupidly using hostnames
when sending my UDP packets... I'm looking up the IP addr now
once and caching it.

/me feels like dunce


Regards,

Bill